For smart wearable devices, the iPhone is the first choice, needless to say, the Apple Watch; but for Android, or consumers who don’t like Apple Watch; in fact, there are more and more smart watch choices, ranging from high price to cost-effective. There are also great value styles. This time I will introduce the value-for-money version of the Mi Watch, which is famous for its cost-effectiveness. Maybe everyone will pay more attention to the Mi Band. , In addition to the heart rate specifications that only high-end smart watches have, the built-in GPS is a highlight of products of the same level (the Xiaomi Mi Band does not).

The Xiaomi Mi Watch Premium Edition comes in three colors: blue, BS520 black and beige (there will be other official colors later), this time out of the box is blue, and the design of the outer box directly puts the rendering of the product, the overall will also be based on this The color of the watch is predominant.

The appearance uses a square surface. The recent product of the same level is probably the realme Watch last year. It also has the appearance of a square watch. The intuition will make people think of Apple Watch.... The screen is equipped with a 1.4-inch TFT LCD screen. screen, resolution 320 x 320, NTSC 60% color gamut, etc.

Also attached here is the appearance of the realme Watch, not only the appearance design is similar, but the screen specifications are also similar. But the two watches are similar here, with different straps, heart rate monitors and case designs.

The only physical button of the Xiaomi Mi Watch Premium Edition is the oval button on the right. The overall case is presented with a matte texture, which can reduce the problem of fingerprint contamination. .

The actual charging will have a dedicated charging interface. Another highlight of the Xiaomi Mi Watch Premium Edition is the long-lasting battery life; the built-in 230mAh battery, the official data has a battery life of 9 days in general use, and the GPS continuous exercise is 10 hours, and it can be fully charged in 2 hours.

The official scenarios for general use are: turn on sleep detection, heart rate detection every half an hour, 24-hour step recording, display 100 notifications, two alarm clocks, sync APP once, and 35 minutes of outdoor exercise each time.

Here, I also measured the power status myself. It took about 47% of the power in three days. I chose half of the surface brightness. During the period, there was an outdoor exercise for 40 minutes. The rest of the heart rate detection conditions are similar to general use. Therefore, the nine-day battery life is really achievable; if you have the habit of exercising outdoors every day, the power consumption will be relatively high, and the editor calculates that after running for 40 minutes, the power will drop by 8%. To be honest, the length of battery life depends on personal usage habits.

Functional test

The operation logic of the Xiaomi Mi Watch Premium Edition is not much different from that of the general smart watch. Swipe up to call up the basic function menu, and you can see the flashlight, lift the wrist to wake up, lock, do not disturb mode and settings.

Swipe down to display notifications. This time, it is linked with the iPhone 12 Pro. Basically, mobile phone messages and notifications can be received, but they cannot be replied, and special fonts and some emojis cannot be displayed correctly.

At the same time, when it is connected to the mobile phone, the watch can also control the music currently playing on the mobile phone. The editor tried Spotify, but occasionally there is a situation where the mobile phone plays music but the watch has no music.

The main settings include changing the dial, brightness and other operation options on the operation of the watch, and we will explain them one by one below.

At the same time, the iOS side can also be equipped with the exclusive APP "Xiaomi Wear Lite" to synchronize with the watch, view information, and add dials and other functions.

The device menu in the APP can see the current status of the related devices and the settings related to the connection with the mobile phone; but the replacement dial is still in simplified Chinese..

In the brightness part of the watch, you can see that it is automatically adjusted according to the on-site environment, or you can manually choose from six levels. This time the editor wears almost three-level wear. Generally, it is good to open the automatic, because the third level will be quite bright to watch in the dark..

In fact, when shooting under direct sunlight, there is no problem with viewing at maximum brightness; in fact, the information can be clearly seen under the third-level brightness.

At the same time, in each different dial classification, there are more different dials to choose from, which is quite sincere in terms of a 1500 smart watch.

After selecting the desired watch face, the phone will transmit the watch face to the watch. It's just that syncing takes a little longer, and it can take about two minutes for a watch face to complete the transfer.

Here is a comparison with Apple Watch Serires 5. It can be found that although it is very similar, the design is still a bit poor...but this visual sense is really overweight.

After pressing the physical button, the related functions of the watch will appear. Designing with images is still a bit familiar; but designing with square patterns has a clever distinction?

The most "value-for-money" aspect of the Xiaomi Mi Watch Value Edition is the built-in GPS. This is actually running in the same place as the Apple Watch Series 5. The GPS track of the Xiaomi watch is not much different from that of the AW. At the same time, the APP will also record the heart rate, pace, altitude, etc. in detail, and the realme Watch information of the same level is not so much. .

The data synchronized with Apple Watch Series 5 is also provided here, except for the time difference between opening and closing training; the difference between the data and the premium version of Xiaomi Watch is really not big; but the difference is big

In terms of heart rate detection, you can measure it as soon as you can think of it, or you can use a fixed time method for regular detection; in addition, if it is a non-exercise period, you can also customize a heart rate value for early warning purposes.

On the whole, the biggest highlight of the Xiaomi Mi Watch Value Edition is the affordable price. The smart watch has almost all functions for daily use, and it is also equipped with built-in GPS functions that are not available in other products of the same level. What I am more amazed at is that it is quite lightweight, and the presence is quite low during exercise (I believe 44mm Apple Watch users should feel it); but the related functions of women's health are not as complete as the Xiaomi Mi Band 5, nor Ways to take pictures through the watch, or link to related products of the Xiaomi ecosystem, this may have some impact on die-hard consumers.